Tapestries by Lenore Tawney, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1961
Lenore Tawney, Staten Island Museum, New York, NY
1962
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1967-81
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY (1967, 69, 75, 81)
Benson Gallery, 1967. Photo: Clayton J. Price
1967-74
Willard Gallery, New York, NY (1967, 70, 74)
1968
Adele Bednarz Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1969-90
Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago, IL (1969, 80, 90)
1970
Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ
Peale Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1975
Lenore Tawney, California State University, Fullerton, CA
1978
Lenore Tawney: A Personal World, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
1979
Lenore Tawney, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
New Jersey State Museum, 1979
1980
Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
1981
Lenore Tawney: Fibers/Collages, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
1985-86
Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY (1985, 86)
1988
Helen Drutt Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, American Craft Museum (now Museum of Arts and Design), New York, NY (national tour)
Tawney at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990
1992
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1994-98
Tenri Gallery, New York, NY (1994, 98)
1995
Lenore Tawney: Boundless World, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996
Lenore Tawney: Meditative Images, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Lenore Tawney: roots, tendrils, threads, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Lenore Tawney, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Lenore Tawney: Shrines, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Lenore Tawney: Vestures of Water, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Lenore Tawney: Meditations, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Lenore Tawney: Shrines Part II, Donahue/Sosinski Art, New York, NY
2000
Lenore Tawney: Celebrating Five Decades of Work, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT
2003
Lenore Tawney: Visions in Time, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2012
Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2013
Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
1956
Craftsmanship in a Changing World, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design) inaugural exhibition, New York, NY
1958
American Artists and Craftsmen, American Pavilion, Brussels World’s Fair, Brussels, Belgium
1962
Adventures in Art, Fine Arts Pavilion, Seattle World’s Fair, Seattle, WA
1963
Woven Forms, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (international tour)
Installation of weavings by Lenore Tawney in Woven Forms, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, 1963. Photo: American Craft Council
1964
Gewebte Formen, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich, Switzerland Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
1969
Objects: USA, The Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts. Premieres at National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. (national and international tour) Wall Hangings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (national tour)
1970
Neuerwerbungen aus den letzten Jahren, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
1973
Fibre Art, Halls Exhibition Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1974
Nine Artists/Coenties Slip, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY In Praise of Hands, Ontario Science Center, Toronto, Canada Fiber Forms… past and present, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
1975
7éme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1977
Fiberworks, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Lenore Tawney and a Fiber Tradition, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1978
Tawney/Higa/Sawada, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ
1979
100 Artists, 100 Years: Alumni of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Form and Fiber, Works by Toshiko Takaezu and Lenore Tawney, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH Weich und Plastich: Soft-Art, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Weich und Plastich: Soft-Art, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland, 1979
1981
Lenore Tawney/Toshiko Takaezu, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI The Art Fabric Mainstream, American Federation of Arts. Premieres at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (national tour) Tracking the Marvelous, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY
1982
Fiber 82, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ
1983
11éme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1986
Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, NY (national tour) Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (national tour)
1987
The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, OK (national and international tour)
1989
Craft Today USA, organized by American Craft Museum, New York. Premieres at Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris (international tour) Fiber Concepts, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, organized by North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND. Premieres at Ishikawa Design Center, Kanazawa, Japan (international tour)
1990
Revered Earth, Premieres at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, (national tour)
1991
Intimate and Intense: Small Fiber Structures, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
1993
Small Works in Fiber: The Collection of Mildred Constantine, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1994
Inspired by Nature, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
1996
Fiber and Form: The Womanʼs Legacy, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Hanging by a Thread, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1998
North and South Connected: An Abstraction of the Americas, Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Material Perception – Celebrating Art and Architecture: Creating a Place for People, Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC
2003
Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern), Valencia, Spain
2003
Generations/Transformations: American Fiber Art, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA
2004
Traditions/Transformations: The Changing World of Fiber Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
2008
Messages and Magic: 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
2012
Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (national and international tour) To Be a Lady, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY Retro/Prospective: 25+ Years of Art Textiles and Sculpture, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT
2013
Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany The Art of Handwriting, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (national tour) Textiles: Open Letter, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Installation view, Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, 2013-2014, illustrating Lenore Tawney’s Indivisible Point, 1982, Collection Stedlijk Museum, AmsterdamInstallation of works by Lenore Tawney, Textiles: Open Letter, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany, 2013
2014
Thread Lines, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, MA (national tour)
2015
Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (national tour) Influence and Evolution: Fiber Sculpture…then and now, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT